Negligent- Not properly attentive

Because the ref's were not negligent they didn't know if the kick was good or not, until they decided to call it a fair feild goal.

Negligible- Unimportant; insignificant

the storm was very negligible because there was hardly any damage that it cause.

Negate- To cancel the effect of; nullify

all of the tennis players training was negated when she was injured during the match.